Dr Erica McInnis is Director and Principal Clinical Psychologist with Nubia Clinical Psychology Training and Consultancy. Dr McInnis has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and has over 15 years experience as a qualified Chartered Clinical Psychologist in the United Kingdom for the National Health Service (NHS).

Nubia Clinical Psychology Training and Consultancy specialises in African Centred approaches (Black Psychology) to improving emotional well-being in adults and children.  She gained a Winston Churchill Fellowship in 2016 to further her knowledge of African Centred approaches and put this knowledge to action

1. co-launching in Manchester free Emotional Emancipation Circles for healing and resilience building of people of African ancestry
2. facilitating training courses in African centred counselling and psychotherapy and
3. providing African centred therapy in addition to other approaches.

Her spirit was illuminated by African Centred Psychology in 2010, and her soul has never looked back!  Erica is black British of Jamaican parentage & committed to the journey of African spiritedness and self-development.

Erica has publications in the following journals: Journal of Black Psychology; Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy; Clinical Psychology Forum; Mindfulness; British Journal of Forensic Practice; and Black Theology in Britain.

Erica lectured for the University of Manchester Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme.  She also presented at the at the 47th annual International Association of Black Psychologists conference (Las Vegas, 2015) and several times for the British Psychological Society (U.K., 2016).  She is a professional member of the International Association of Black Psychologists (Abpsi) and has a keen interest in research and contributing to the evidence base for African Centred psychotherapies in Britain.

Erica is registered as a practicing psychologist with the hcpc (Health and Care Professions Council) and has Chartership as a psychologist from the British Psychological Society (BPS).  This means that Nubia Wellnessa and Healing abide by the code of conduct of those regulatory bodies and are informed by their ethical guidelines.

Furthermore, as a full professional member of the International Association of Black Psychologist (Abpsi) Erica is part of a leading organisation for the understanding, spiritual and emotional care of people of African origin.  Erica gained membership of the Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors (RAPPS) in 2013 which means she demonstrated skills in delivering supervision in the workplace. Erica has an Enhanced Certificate (from the Criminal Records Bureau/ Disclosure and Baring Service) which means she is assessed as fit to work with vulnerable groups.